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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 13h

A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week

He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared

They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him

Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility

They kidnapped a disabled child!

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Uitlander @uitlander.co.uk · 4h

Next it will be female archbishops. You mark my words!

Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 4h

You wouldn't believe the number of morons on Twitter pretending that a temporary exhibition of vinyl stickers at Canterbury Cathedral is permanent graffiti, just so they can feel outraged. Then JD Vance joins in, because clearly this is an international crisis.

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Dr. David McBride (dwm) @dwm.me.uk · 4h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“Block device split brain”

Orthanc @orthanc.nz · 8h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“Didn't test the restore”

Suzi and Rose @suzirose.bsky.social · 8h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“There’s no recovery plan”

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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 4h

Data for England show COVID levels increasing.
Little likelihood that these data have peaked yet.
Issues?
🛑Limited testing
🛑Waning immunity
🛑Low priority by leaders
🛑Limited vaccine eligibility
🛑Scant use of face coverings
🛑HCAIs in healthcare settings
🛑Mixing in poorly ventilated, cramped spaces.

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 15h

The counteroffensive to reclaim the frog from the very online incel Nazis is going splendidly.

Rhonda Henry @rhonda234567.bsky.social · 22h

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Uitlander @uitlander.co.uk · 18h

Gosh!

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 20h

An elevator pitch for a new book came to me right after my SweCon kaffeeklatch:

"In the year 2000, Earth was taken over by a consortium of Bond villains.

"Then, in 2025, a lone mild-mannered librarian decided to take it back …"

Think it could sell?

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Uitlander @uitlander.co.uk · 22h

Presumably no potential students or parents with limited mobility or wheelchairs on the tour?

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Uitlander @uitlander.co.uk · 1d

Thank you!

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Uitlander @uitlander.co.uk · 1d

Yeah, its obscene, particularly when you consider that the clinincally vulnerable are far more likely to have lower income and savings levels than average. It's just another tax on being ill.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 1d

I hereby declare war on premature Christmassing.

Any shop caught doing this before 1st December must be shut down and turned into affordable housing.

Choose sanity. Vote Binface.

(Photo dated 9th October 2025)

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Uitlander @uitlander.co.uk · 1d

Does anyone know the odds of the Frogs winning the Nobel Peace Prize next year?

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Rupert Stubbs @rupertstubbs.bsky.social · 1d

More weight to @garius.bsky.social ‘s idea that McCartney’s The Frog Chorus (“We All Stand Together”) is the perfect anti-authoritarian protest song…

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

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Uitlander @uitlander.co.uk · 1d

I also got vaxxed there 2 weeks ago. I also got clubcard points!

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Uitlander @uitlander.co.uk · 1d

Where is "here"? It absolutely is not free on request in the UK.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Imagine being mad you didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize while you’re busy stirring up Civil War in your own country.

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Uitlander @uitlander.co.uk · 1d

It was free for diabetics last year. We are sufficiently vulnerable for the annual NHS 'flu jab, but not for the NHS covid jab this year. The medical rationale escapes me - I assume it is to save NHS money. Short term thinking. The only option is private, and the cost is prohibitively high.

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Uitlander @uitlander.co.uk · 1d

I always do!

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Uitlander @uitlander.co.uk · 1d

Boots also does it, plus some local pharmacies. Boots quoted me £98. At Tesco they gave me clubard points when I paid for it.

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Uitlander @uitlander.co.uk · 1d

For the first time, despite caring for a 96 year old and having diabetes I am not eligible. Got it done privately at Tesco for £90, which hurt financially.

Sharing this again petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Fund NHS COVID boosters for Clinically Vulnerable people – keep covid boosters

'Protect the NHS' and 'Save Lives' by continuing to fund NHS COVID boosters for Clinically Vulnerable people, including most previously shielded as CEV, rather than limiting them to over-75s, care hom...

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 2d

One day I'll go to a mental health at work meeting that addresses how the work can be made less stressful rather than how staff can be made more resilient

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